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he was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone for its graduates from the speech he delivered at the dedication of the library. i know what my heart that man is good. but what is right will always eventually triumph and that there's purpose and worth in each and every life. during his political career, reagan was disliked and even reviled by most as the intelligence, the mainstream media as they've come to be known. but today there are so those who belittle his will in russia's decision to missiles that the united states and the ultimate failures of soviet communism. but there are many of us remember reagan from his record of 34 television network addresses to the american people. what these americans would call, no matter what the politics was a man of great bearing, straight talk, full of good humor and good will. this feature for president a matter what came his way. there were times he could be angry as he showed in the speeches about gorbachev's behavior and the arms conference on the russian merger of the i
he was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone for its graduates from the speech he delivered at the dedication of the library. i know what my heart that man is good. but what is right will always eventually triumph and that there's purpose and worth in each and every life. during his political career, reagan was disliked and even reviled by most as the intelligence, the mainstream media as they've come to be known. but today there are so those who...
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reagan, who also love to tell shaggy dog stories in the oval office. and people would go when with some very important business on their mind that they needed to conduct with the president of the united states. after about two weeks came out, that reminds me of the story and he would launch into some long story about methodist parsons writing across the prairie. this is an actual response in 1862 to some nagging abolitionist as they got closer and closer to the river, they sat down and started to argue about hey there are going to get across to the other. with the river going to be high? wasn't going to be low? one of them finally says no, i never crossed the river until i come to it. so is that funny? not really, but the beauty of it for lincoln was by the time he got to the punchline, time to go. and he is ushered right. there's a wonderful story of a member of congress coming in and getting this treatment. he's got serious business and lincoln says he know, that reminds me -- janet lincoln, i'm not listening to one of your stories right now. you're
reagan, who also love to tell shaggy dog stories in the oval office. and people would go when with some very important business on their mind that they needed to conduct with the president of the united states. after about two weeks came out, that reminds me of the story and he would launch into some long story about methodist parsons writing across the prairie. this is an actual response in 1862 to some nagging abolitionist as they got closer and closer to the river, they sat down and started...
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ronald reagan's tax cuts added about a trillion dollars in welfare every decade to the top two or 3% in america. we've had three decades of bad debts $3 trillion worth of wealth and the tax cuts in the early 2000's added another trillions of its $4 trillion by got at it the upper end. and what's really important in addition to that and that got cut out of the middle. if you look at the period from world war ii to the mid 1970's, and this is important. i know it sounds like a long time ago but this is how history looks. if you look at that period, the productivity of the american workforce over those their years just about doubled. they grew 97% which is an amazing and wonderful performance that made america the envy of the world to come up with that kind of performance they pay the hourly compensation of than average american worker during that same for 30 years rose 95%. 97% and productivity and people in the middle class and i am not just talking abut assembly line workers i'm talking the gas station owners and computer programmers. they shared in the prosperity of the growth of am
ronald reagan's tax cuts added about a trillion dollars in welfare every decade to the top two or 3% in america. we've had three decades of bad debts $3 trillion worth of wealth and the tax cuts in the early 2000's added another trillions of its $4 trillion by got at it the upper end. and what's really important in addition to that and that got cut out of the middle. if you look at the period from world war ii to the mid 1970's, and this is important. i know it sounds like a long time ago but...
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ronald reagan had a deep instinct. this is the 26 anniversary of the failure of the challenger and the death of chris mcauliffe and the other astronauts. if you go back and look in our film, we have a section of ronald reagan talking to the nation. he does not talk about the fee or failure, he does not talk about turning back. he talks about heroism courage, the spirit of pioneering. the desire to move ahead. he reminds us that it was 390 years earlier on that day that the great english explorer had died at sea. he brought a connection between the age of exploration and the new age of exploration. seven nights ago on the space coast, i outlined a bold and visionary dramatic opportunity for americans. i did it for two very different reasons. one because i will not turn, we will not turn to our grand children and say we were the generation who let the chinese dominate space. we're the generation that accepted the decay of the united states because it was too hard to break out. this is a big country filled with big people
ronald reagan had a deep instinct. this is the 26 anniversary of the failure of the challenger and the death of chris mcauliffe and the other astronauts. if you go back and look in our film, we have a section of ronald reagan talking to the nation. he does not talk about the fee or failure, he does not talk about turning back. he talks about heroism courage, the spirit of pioneering. the desire to move ahead. he reminds us that it was 390 years earlier on that day that the great english...
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reagan's cia director, he was also a history buff, decided to want to open up all the oss operation files. no one in the world had done it. you open up your own intelligence days of the entire operation file. that's amazing. so now it's at the national archives in college park, maryland. it's a gigantic record file. it has about 8000 feet of files. so i delved into this and i found some of the fascinating stuff. so i decided to write the book, and the book was first published in 1997 on the 50th anniversary of the cia. so it sold relatively well, and then 9/11 happened, and interesting intelligence organization, but then people were overwhelmingly interested, here now, and more internal affairs stuff. so a few years later, this one, this topic became sort of, of interest to a lot of people again. and the u.s. institute, press, we printed the paperback of the. the original one was published by yale university press. >> maochun yu, how many american personnel were in china during world war ii? >> comparatively speaking, very few, but the preeminence of china given by the american poli
reagan's cia director, he was also a history buff, decided to want to open up all the oss operation files. no one in the world had done it. you open up your own intelligence days of the entire operation file. that's amazing. so now it's at the national archives in college park, maryland. it's a gigantic record file. it has about 8000 feet of files. so i delved into this and i found some of the fascinating stuff. so i decided to write the book, and the book was first published in 1997 on the...
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because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they get a big dose of politics. they don't have tools to look up presidents. maybe there are a few books on other presidents and i the hot i would start a trend. i selected reagan because he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy because of his childhood and his life. i like to write about movie stars but i have met to every president since kennedy, i was a reporter in washington 10 years. amid johnson, nixon, and ford when he was in the house. i met to carter coming into new york, i came and on sunday night and stoppe
because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they...
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reagan he came in and he found you know ninety four percent top marginal tax rate was so tax rate so it was ninety four percent at the height of his movie career and i was that was back then when he when he came into office there's i mean there's no getting around the fact that he cut taxes people were incentivized it became more you know to the capital gains tax i mean ronald reagan and i quote it he should know no he raised it had already the game is the jimmy carter he raised the capital gains tax rate from fifteen or twenty percent up to twenty eight percent so that it was the identical to the regular income tax he said and we've got the tape of that i can't play right now that was not what we said do you think that a bus driver should pay a higher tax rate than a millionaire that's crazy that's a verb and quote from ronald reagan and today we've got a fifteen percent tax rate for the millionaires and billionaires capital gains rate and we've got a thirty five thirty six percent rate for everybody else i think that's crazy and i agree with ronald reagan we should be taxing millio
reagan he came in and he found you know ninety four percent top marginal tax rate was so tax rate so it was ninety four percent at the height of his movie career and i was that was back then when he when he came into office there's i mean there's no getting around the fact that he cut taxes people were incentivized it became more you know to the capital gains tax i mean ronald reagan and i quote it he should know no he raised it had already the game is the jimmy carter he raised the capital...
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ronald reagan worked with democrats to save social security. it was george w. bush who added prescription drug coverage to medicare. what leaders in both parties have traditionally understood is that these investments are not part of some scheme to redistribute wealth from one group to another. they are expressions of the fact that we are one nation. these investments benefit us all. and they contribute to genuine, durable economic growth. show me a business leader who would not profit if more americans could afford to get the skills and education that today's jobs require. ask any company where they would rather locate and hire workers, a country with crumbling roads and bridges or one committed to high-speed internet and high-speed railroad and high-tech research and development? it doesn't make us weaker when we guarantee basic security for the elderly, sick, or those who are actively looking for work. what makes us weaker is when fewer and fewer people can afford to buy the goods and services are businesses sell. when entrepreneurs don't have the financial
ronald reagan worked with democrats to save social security. it was george w. bush who added prescription drug coverage to medicare. what leaders in both parties have traditionally understood is that these investments are not part of some scheme to redistribute wealth from one group to another. they are expressions of the fact that we are one nation. these investments benefit us all. and they contribute to genuine, durable economic growth. show me a business leader who would not profit if more...
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they fought for things that americans that ronald reagan referred to. it is the face of having seven children ages 20-3. it is not the best time to run for president of the united states. we felt compelled because as ronald reagan said, we did not want to have to sit down some day and look at the eyes of our children's children and describe to them in america where once men were free. there were all born in pennsylvania. they all understand that has the greatness. all of us understand what was sacrifice. that is why we fight this fight. not because some poster tells us. because they know in their gut big things are adrift and in state at this election. i ask each and every one of the a to join us, to saddle up like reagan did with cowboy boots, take on that responsibility over the next five weeks. we're going to head to louisiana for here. we're feeling good about winning louisiana on saturday. [applause] we are heading to louisiana for the rest of the week and then we will be back here in pennsylvania. we will pick up a whole boatload of delegates and
they fought for things that americans that ronald reagan referred to. it is the face of having seven children ages 20-3. it is not the best time to run for president of the united states. we felt compelled because as ronald reagan said, we did not want to have to sit down some day and look at the eyes of our children's children and describe to them in america where once men were free. there were all born in pennsylvania. they all understand that has the greatness. all of us understand what was...
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there are portraits of ronald reagan all over the place here. the company's ceo says a neighbor asked him to host and the reaction was "sure. let's do it". >> we want to support all of the conservative candidates. all of them. and we send money to all of them. weird, huh? we do that so they all have a chance to get their message out to the country. so all of the people can hear and makeup their minds who they want to be the conservative guy that walks into that white house. >> he says he's given money to all republican candidates for the white house but the public finance records show he has not yet given to rick santorum, at least there is no record of it. the record does show he has maxed out contributions to mitt romney and rick perry. we're back looking at the crowd gathering here, waiting for rick santorum, we'll have him for you, live, when he shows up. >> thank you, mark. republican presidential candidate mitt romney received an important endorsement from former president george bush. >> i do think it's time for party to get behind govern
there are portraits of ronald reagan all over the place here. the company's ceo says a neighbor asked him to host and the reaction was "sure. let's do it". >> we want to support all of the conservative candidates. all of them. and we send money to all of them. weird, huh? we do that so they all have a chance to get their message out to the country. so all of the people can hear and makeup their minds who they want to be the conservative guy that walks into that white house....
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the ghost of ronald reagan haunting president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. mr. obama opened up a new front in his battle against mitt romney today by going back to the tax the rich mantra. the president trying to force romney in to defending wealthy americans by opposing tax increases on them. so, say hello once again to our little friend, class warfare. but here is an interesting side bar. the ghost of ronald reagan may be haunting president obama. 32 years ago america was also in bad economic times. the incumbent president jimmy carter had expanded the federal government and lost control of the private sector. unemployment and inflation were very big problems. the challenger, ronald reagan, took full advantage of that portraying carter as incompetent and, of course, reagan won the election. on january 20th, 1981, ronald reagan said this in his inaugural address. >> those who do work are denied a fair return for their labor by a tax system which penalizes successful achievement and keeps us from mai
the ghost of ronald reagan haunting president obama. that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. mr. obama opened up a new front in his battle against mitt romney today by going back to the tax the rich mantra. the president trying to force romney in to defending wealthy americans by opposing tax increases on them. so, say hello once again to our little friend, class warfare. but here is an interesting side bar. the ghost of ronald reagan may be haunting president obama. 32 years...
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mitt romney will model his campaign on the 1980 ronald reagan run. at that time jimmy carter was the progressive guy and the economy was in big trouble. governor reagan carter far left asked the question are you better off than you were four years ago. guess what romney asked last night? >> four years ago barack obama dazzled us in front of greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. but after we came down to earth, after all the celebration and the parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of president obama? >> bill: so there you have it. romney running as reagan. obama running as obama. and the american people forced to decide whether they want unfettered capitalism or a federal provider that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. how did ronald reagan defeat jimmy carter in 1980, six months before that election a gallup poll showed carter leading reagan 41% to 34%. joining us now from washington dick morris the author of the upcoming book screwed, how foreign countries are ripping america off and plundering our
mitt romney will model his campaign on the 1980 ronald reagan run. at that time jimmy carter was the progressive guy and the economy was in big trouble. governor reagan carter far left asked the question are you better off than you were four years ago. guess what romney asked last night? >> four years ago barack obama dazzled us in front of greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. but after we came down to earth, after all the celebration and the parades, what do we have...
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tip o'neill and ronald reagan were not particularly close friends. they respected one another. they knew one another's political integrity. but they were not moderates. this should be a lesson by polarization and extremism makes compromise possible. even today ted kennedy and orrin hatch, these are not moderate people. they knew how to compromise. that is a key lesson. >> the health care. the health care act, and a lot to do with the distrust that poisoned the atmosphere. the seeds of this eventual lack of political support was built in to the way it was legislated. >> it was really interesting to compare the tax reform act with the health care act why we do it as a book but it was really interesting. here's what i find most interesting. as part of the was -- the major tax reform of the century. it was just as hard to get health care through in one party and there was a lot of compromise within the party and almost no possibility of bipartisanship. it was a game of chicken both parties were playing. i know people depending on whether u.s. republicans or democrats, blame the oth
tip o'neill and ronald reagan were not particularly close friends. they respected one another. they knew one another's political integrity. but they were not moderates. this should be a lesson by polarization and extremism makes compromise possible. even today ted kennedy and orrin hatch, these are not moderate people. they knew how to compromise. that is a key lesson. >> the health care. the health care act, and a lot to do with the distrust that poisoned the atmosphere. the seeds of...
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ronald reagan governmeed more progressively than he sounded. he didn't get rid of social security and he didn't get rid f things he talked about that he didn't do and some of reagan's greatest achievements come from having governed. george w. bush, by the way, two of his greatest domestic achievements were based on using the power of the federal government and one was the prescription drug benefit under medicare and the no child left behind act which sought to use federal power to ensure more accountability in the schools. this time, i think we really are in a fight over the long consensus and the progressives came along building on what the populists had done in reaction to the politics of the gilded edge and our conservative friend and this is one of the points where bill comes into my book have pushed aside temporarily their more commune tearian traditions and are operating on the basis of the radicalism that is very much out of the gilded age. i like conservatism. many of my best friends are conservative, and i want conservatives to redisco
ronald reagan governmeed more progressively than he sounded. he didn't get rid of social security and he didn't get rid f things he talked about that he didn't do and some of reagan's greatest achievements come from having governed. george w. bush, by the way, two of his greatest domestic achievements were based on using the power of the federal government and one was the prescription drug benefit under medicare and the no child left behind act which sought to use federal power to ensure more...
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is it even real questions surrounding a vial of what is supposed to be president ronald reagan's blood. auxins a celebrity memorabilia often fetch big prizes and lots of attention that the latest offering from a british auction house and its authenticity is in question to barbara or on the outrage over president ronald reagan's blood. >>> the anonymous seller is the pilot blood was drawn from president reagan the day he would shot 31 years ago. the online auction poster notes the blood was to be examined for a 5 in. glass tube carries the president's name and last name is dr. aaron the label has a designation full meaning mr. reagan was a patient with chest wound and its stand today to the shooting march 30, 1981. the overseas auction houses traces of dried blood are clearly visible in the tube and bidders are interested the price is approaching 9,200 lbs. nearly $15,000. >>> the executive director of the reagan presidential foundation. >>> i don't know the reaction can be anything other than outrage they're being sold on the internet's the president added states then his family for 31
is it even real questions surrounding a vial of what is supposed to be president ronald reagan's blood. auxins a celebrity memorabilia often fetch big prizes and lots of attention that the latest offering from a british auction house and its authenticity is in question to barbara or on the outrage over president ronald reagan's blood. >>> the anonymous seller is the pilot blood was drawn from president reagan the day he would shot 31 years ago. the online auction poster notes the blood...
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reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan -- provided information about fellow actors and his opponents and the screen actors guild, and j. edgar hoover repaid those favors. here is one document here is one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there. >> i will summarize and then go to the pertinent part. this is a document from august 4th, 1947, and is a report on the fbi's investigation into hollywood. one of the areas the fbi was looking at was alleged communist infiltration of labor unions. one of the main unions is the screen actors guild, you can see here this is the index, and the scre
reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what...
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ronald reagan. every single president. george h.w. bush. >> it's a brutal job. >> they all leave broken. >> well, i mean, look at obama, he's not broken but his hair is graying. they visibly age before -- >> joe's not broken. >> but you know what, he refused to leave. remember? bill clinton still in the hanger four months later. >> they're broken when they leave, but then they rehabilitate themselves. i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than dicks nixon. he becomes the sage of saddle river, having journalists at the dinner, rewriting history books. even nixon can come back. there is life after the presidency if you handle yourself. but history is like -- >> another reason this is so much fun and so important ultimately is remember the way the founders described -- i think it was washington described the senate as the saucer in which -- >> where the tea cools. >> right. >> that's what history is. and it takes our friend michael beschloss as a rule, you can't write about a president in full until 25 years after they leave
ronald reagan. every single president. george h.w. bush. >> it's a brutal job. >> they all leave broken. >> well, i mean, look at obama, he's not broken but his hair is graying. they visibly age before -- >> joe's not broken. >> but you know what, he refused to leave. remember? bill clinton still in the hanger four months later. >> they're broken when they leave, but then they rehabilitate themselves. i mean, even nixon. you couldn't leave more broken than...
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look how ronald reagan was raids. dickson, illinois, small town, midwest, people proud of the work they did, proud of their families, proud of their heritage and country. look at barack obama. church with reverand wright for 20 years, he hates america. sal aelin ski. -- saul alinsky. he took the bust of winston churchill and said get this thing out of here. he gave a speech about the problems of america, apologizing for america. ronald reagan always uplifted america. he was our cheerleader. that's what america is looking for now. a cheerleader. megyn: it's possible for 46% of those polled to say they think president obama believes america's unfair and discriminatory but to still believe that he loves america. you can't necessarily jump to the one conclusion from the other. off course, those are separate questions. what the people think the president views is a society that needs a lot of work because of its discriminatory tendencies. nobody, not enron ald reagan would say america is perfect. but another difference, ro
look how ronald reagan was raids. dickson, illinois, small town, midwest, people proud of the work they did, proud of their families, proud of their heritage and country. look at barack obama. church with reverand wright for 20 years, he hates america. sal aelin ski. -- saul alinsky. he took the bust of winston churchill and said get this thing out of here. he gave a speech about the problems of america, apologizing for america. ronald reagan always uplifted america. he was our cheerleader....
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. >> those are reagan positions. do you think ronald reagan was for same sex marriage? i worked for him for eight years. >> bill: i don't think reagan would bring it up. >> oh my goodness. i completely disagree, bill. in all due respect. >> bill: really? >> look, president reagan, changing the topic a little bit, president reagan wrote a book just on the abortion issue after he was elected president of the united states. >> bill: abortion is different though. that's a different issue than the don't ask, don't tell, and gay marriage, i think. it's a different issue. >> 31 states have voted on same sex marriage from liberal california to conservative georgia and every one of them have voted to preserve marriage as a union of one man and one woman. >> bill: i'm not debating the issue with you. i think it's a legitimate issue. the way the country is changing now, according to the polls, that territory is very, very fluid. fluid. >> if it had changed that much, bill, barack obama would be running as openly same sex marriage. instead he claims he is not while is he doing ever
. >> those are reagan positions. do you think ronald reagan was for same sex marriage? i worked for him for eight years. >> bill: i don't think reagan would bring it up. >> oh my goodness. i completely disagree, bill. in all due respect. >> bill: really? >> look, president reagan, changing the topic a little bit, president reagan wrote a book just on the abortion issue after he was elected president of the united states. >> bill: abortion is different though....
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mitt romney will model his campaign on the 1980 ronald reagan run. at that time jimmy carter was the progressive guy and the economy was in big trouble. governor reagan carter far left asked the question are you better off than you were four years ago. guess what romney asked last night? >> four years ago barack obama dazzled us in front of greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. but after we came down to earth, after all the celebration and the parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of president obama? >> bill: so there you have it. romney running as reagan. obama running as obama. and the american people forced to decide whether they want unfettered capitalism or a federal provider that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. how did ronald reagan defeat jimmy carter in 1980, six months before that election a gallup poll showed carter leading reagan 41% to 34%. joining us now from washington dick morris the author of the upcoming book screwed, how foreign countries are ripping america off and plundering our
mitt romney will model his campaign on the 1980 ronald reagan run. at that time jimmy carter was the progressive guy and the economy was in big trouble. governor reagan carter far left asked the question are you better off than you were four years ago. guess what romney asked last night? >> four years ago barack obama dazzled us in front of greek columns with sweeping promises of hope and change. but after we came down to earth, after all the celebration and the parades, what do we have...
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so when ronald reagan was elected in november 1966, j. edgar hoover and other fbi officials do this as a breath of fresh it. they believe they finally had an out in the governor's mansion, and begin to work closely with ronald reagan to crackdown on student protesters and radical professors. >> so what happened? >> well, what the documents show that over the following years, well, what happened first is that one of the first things reagan does after he is elected is to phone the fbi request this briefing, which hoover personally authorizes. two wks later at fst board of regents meeting, attended by ronald reagan, the board of regents votes to fire clark kerr. the boards balance in power had shifted because reagan was nine-member and he made several appointments to it. one of the fbi documents that was released indicates that the board members were aware of certain fbi information that ronald reagan had at the time. and in the following months and years, the documents show that the fbi continue to cooperate with reagan and to secretly prov
so when ronald reagan was elected in november 1966, j. edgar hoover and other fbi officials do this as a breath of fresh it. they believe they finally had an out in the governor's mansion, and begin to work closely with ronald reagan to crackdown on student protesters and radical professors. >> so what happened? >> well, what the documents show that over the following years, well, what happened first is that one of the first things reagan does after he is elected is to phone the fbi...
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ronald reagan praised it for embodying the theme of making dreams come true. art cribs was there. >> reporter: inside the coliseum tonight the faithful came early. for $17.50 you could see or perhaps only hear springsteen from the last row at the top or down front with scott and cindy campbell. >> did you expect when you got your ticket to be right in the man's face? >> i hoped to be right in the man's face. >> there's something special, maybe magic about bruce springsteen. maybe it's just natural honest concern. >> he's one of the people, he's one of those rare caring people that transcends show business, very rare. >> it's been a long time since i've been to a concert. and he really move me, plus my wife dragged me down here. so it's time to let lose again. >> reporter: springsteen was part of a very successful we are the world album. with money and food going to the starving in ethiopia. here tonight he represents a spirit in the usa. >> ♪ >> my husband was a vietnam veteran, 100% disabled and it does. i'm proud to be an american. >>> there's neither a ge
ronald reagan praised it for embodying the theme of making dreams come true. art cribs was there. >> reporter: inside the coliseum tonight the faithful came early. for $17.50 you could see or perhaps only hear springsteen from the last row at the top or down front with scott and cindy campbell. >> did you expect when you got your ticket to be right in the man's face? >> i hoped to be right in the man's face. >> there's something special, maybe magic about bruce...
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in 1982, they fooled ronald reagan. they got him to agree to all $1 tax increase for every $3 of spending cuts. tax increases, we are still paying for them. the spending cuts never happened. spending went up twice as much. they had more spending, not less. then they turned around to george herbert walker bush in 1990 and they offered him $2 of the imaginary spending cuts for every $1 of a tax increase. he was a cheaper date. the spending cuts never happened. what happened in 2011 was there were not able to talk of republicans into swallowing their own net tongues. [applause] they had been able to do it in the past. they were not able to do it in 2011. the tea party movement, the ron paul movement came into the modern republican movement. making as bigger, stronger, and more conservative. i look back at the goldwater election, 1963 and 1964, a lot of people came into the party and strengthened the party. made it more conservative and more active. i understand why our enemies advise us against having a stronger and bigger
in 1982, they fooled ronald reagan. they got him to agree to all $1 tax increase for every $3 of spending cuts. tax increases, we are still paying for them. the spending cuts never happened. spending went up twice as much. they had more spending, not less. then they turned around to george herbert walker bush in 1990 and they offered him $2 of the imaginary spending cuts for every $1 of a tax increase. he was a cheaper date. the spending cuts never happened. what happened in 2011 was there were...
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and then there's a wonderful book by bill luchtenberg on the shadow of fdr at least to ronald reagan. even reagan turning against the new deal, but embracing that style of leadership on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look at this country and find many great leaders in every field. we find great leaders in american universities. you are in the presence of one in david bore. such an extraordinary leader that way. and there are 3,000 american universities today and most of them are in the hands of very good leaders. we see good leaders in government. one of my privileges is to talk to the first classmen at west point, which i have done these last two years. and the leadership of these young men and of the general officers of the u.s. army are extraordinary today, and we find that everywhere in this country, except recently on pennsylvania avenue. and i wonder what the future holds for us. and much of it, i think, it was said by thomas jefferson that his toughest job of his presidential office was appointing other people to office. and
and then there's a wonderful book by bill luchtenberg on the shadow of fdr at least to ronald reagan. even reagan turning against the new deal, but embracing that style of leadership on the explicit example of franklin roosevelt. and now what today? what for us? and we look at this country and find many great leaders in every field. we find great leaders in american universities. you are in the presence of one in david bore. such an extraordinary leader that way. and there are 3,000 american...
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reagan. >> and ronald reagan who is a natural step in what we have always found in the country a democrat, lower case d, synthesis. >> and i'm surprised at jfk, because a martyred president whose assassination shaped the way a generation of historians and writers have looked at him as a fallen good president, and do you believe that jfk will farewell 50 years from now? >> yes. i base my opinion on evan's great treatment of his treatment of bobby kennedy, because when you think of the son of a president, an appeaser who is sittinaround in a room having the manhood and the courage challenged by generals over nuclear missiles and his having the courage to compromise and to make the deal he made to avoid what could have been a nuclear war in october of 1962, and yeah, you get on the mountain. >> so when is it going to matter how a president treats women? >> soon. [ laughter ] >> that is a weighted question by someone who would never put jfk or another certain president on there. >> because of the personal conduct? >> yes. >> and treating people who are in many ways far below him on a level of
reagan. >> and ronald reagan who is a natural step in what we have always found in the country a democrat, lower case d, synthesis. >> and i'm surprised at jfk, because a martyred president whose assassination shaped the way a generation of historians and writers have looked at him as a fallen good president, and do you believe that jfk will farewell 50 years from now? >> yes. i base my opinion on evan's great treatment of his treatment of bobby kennedy, because when you think...
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reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what the fbi documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan proceeded to become an active informer in hollywood, that he provided information about fellow actors and about his opponents in the screen actors guild and that in subsequent years j. edgar hoover repaid those favors by giving reagan personal and political help even though it was beyond the fbi's jurisdiction to do so. and here's one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there? >> no. >> can't read it? >> i'll summarize it and go to the pertinent part. this is from august 4, 1937
reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my...
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no one had ever written and young adult book about ronald reagan. i think maybe there are a few about some of the other presidents, but i thought, well, maybe i'll start a trend here. i selected reagan because i think he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy. because of both his childhood and -- a movie star for heaven's sake. i like to read about movie stars. but i have met every president since kennedy, i think. i didn't beat kennedy. but since then i was a reporter in washington for seniors. i met johnson, nixon, ford. i knew ford when he was in the house. actually, i met carter in an interesting way. i came into york from my place out in the hamptons. i came in sunday night as i usually and stopped out that when just rant and had dinner. i stopped off there. proceeded to what we call the family table which is divorcees embezzlers and wayward husbands and so on. [laughter] and alain came over. in the back of the room, and he once talked to you. i set out get there shortly. she said to know, he really
no one had ever written and young adult book about ronald reagan. i think maybe there are a few about some of the other presidents, but i thought, well, maybe i'll start a trend here. i selected reagan because i think he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy. because of both his childhood and -- a movie star for heaven's sake. i like to read about movie stars. but i have met every president since kennedy, i think. i didn't beat kennedy. but since...
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as some have argued lead to the elections that triumphed richard nixon and then ronald reagan. the 1960s new left, sds, it's often been forgotten -- we remember sds, but remember there was a new right. there was a ronald reagan and there was a barry goldwater and there was a base of support for student conservatism, particularly in one group called young americans for freedom. those on the libertarian right, and those on the marxis left in the sds had a common enemy, and it was not each other. it was the center. it was the party of harry truman, roosevelt, kennedy, lyndon johnson and vice president hubert humphrey. to sds, the problem of the democratic party t permitted to have the southern racist white democrats in the party. and johnson and humphrey and kennedy were not moving quick enough to deal with the white south. at the same time, white working class people, you know, they supported anti-communism, interventionist foreign policy. labor unions were not open to admitting many blacks. labor unions were hawkish, anti-communist. that was the critique from the left. the new r
as some have argued lead to the elections that triumphed richard nixon and then ronald reagan. the 1960s new left, sds, it's often been forgotten -- we remember sds, but remember there was a new right. there was a ronald reagan and there was a barry goldwater and there was a base of support for student conservatism, particularly in one group called young americans for freedom. those on the libertarian right, and those on the marxis left in the sds had a common enemy, and it was not each other....
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what evidence they have this is ronald reagan's blood was it cold well they say that it came the seller wrote the file came from his or her late mother who took it from her workplace at the maryland based bio science laboratories where they were doing blood work and testing we were going to email but you already i don't know i said you know possession is nine tenths the law finders keepers i don't know i don't know if there's legal recourse for the information to get this back but you don't think you would think it would you will light in the regular you hire will have some kind of blood will have some power i mean you would think they'd be delighted i don't know because you know reagan was supposedly this huge free market guys so you'd think you know someone practicing free market principles would be like the ronald reagan foundation but i guess it didn't create enough systemic financial risk and pollute all the oceans so i even if you have if it is even legal to steal blood is what she did legal. you know i have not heard of that while i know people say about it does seem rather wrong
what evidence they have this is ronald reagan's blood was it cold well they say that it came the seller wrote the file came from his or her late mother who took it from her workplace at the maryland based bio science laboratories where they were doing blood work and testing we were going to email but you already i don't know i said you know possession is nine tenths the law finders keepers i don't know i don't know if there's legal recourse for the information to get this back but you don't...
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ronald reagan, shining city on a hill. to president obama, we are a source of policy that required this president to go around the world and repeatedly apologized for america and what we have done in this world. ronald reagan would never apologize for the greatest country in history of the world. [applause] we have a very similar theme. we have a president who has made this week, cut our defense, we are approaching a $4 trillion budget. $1.20 trillion in deficit. expanding and exploding the deficit by $5 trillion. the only place the president can find to cut its defense spending. it is the only place he is willing to take a pound of flesh. it is the only thing the federal government has to do that individuals cannot do. when i was born, defense spending was 60% of the federal budget. it is now not 60% or 50 or 40 or 20. it is 17%. it is the one area that president obama says we have to cut some more. let me pledge to give just like ronald reagan pledged. we will have a strong and powerful and forceful america. [applause] t
ronald reagan, shining city on a hill. to president obama, we are a source of policy that required this president to go around the world and repeatedly apologized for america and what we have done in this world. ronald reagan would never apologize for the greatest country in history of the world. [applause] we have a very similar theme. we have a president who has made this week, cut our defense, we are approaching a $4 trillion budget. $1.20 trillion in deficit. expanding and exploding the...
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here's more from that event earlier today. >> ronald reagan stood for free markets, for a free economy. he would be appalled at looking what is happening today with the government takeover of health care. margaret thatcher after she left the prime ministership of england looked back at what she had accomplished in england at the same time that she served as reagan did. she said she never was able to accomplish what reagan accomplished in america. she said the reason the british national health care system. she said once government has their hooks into you, once government makes you dependent upon it for your very health and your lives and that of your children and your loved ones, it got you. [ applause ] they got you. and there is no amount of tributes you will not pay to get what you think you need to preserve your health and more importantly the health of those that you love. that's why obama care is the number one issue in this race. it is a race -- it's an issue about fundamental freedom. it's about whether you will be a generation that will be the generation that reagan talked ab
here's more from that event earlier today. >> ronald reagan stood for free markets, for a free economy. he would be appalled at looking what is happening today with the government takeover of health care. margaret thatcher after she left the prime ministership of england looked back at what she had accomplished in england at the same time that she served as reagan did. she said she never was able to accomplish what reagan accomplished in america. she said the reason the british national...
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he will prove to you, just as ronald reagan proved to me, that quay we can fix this. we can only fix it with your help. so let me be one of the proudest guys in new hampshire today to introduce my friend, u.s. senator rand paul. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for coming out. i'd like to introduce my wife, kelly. it's our 25th anniversary today. we just sent our first son off to college and like some of your parents, when you went off to college, your parents were worried about you -- about you, may still be worried about you, are you showing up for class, particularly the 8:00 a.m. classes. what are you going to choose for your major? will you still be living at home with your parents? we read up about it, there's books about everything. there's a story about how parents can determine whether their child will come out ok. the parents hid in the closet, they devised a test they put out a $100 bill, a bible, and a fifth of bourbon. they thought if he figured -- if he picks up the $100 bill, he's going to be a businessman, if he picks up the bible, he'll be a preacher,
he will prove to you, just as ronald reagan proved to me, that quay we can fix this. we can only fix it with your help. so let me be one of the proudest guys in new hampshire today to introduce my friend, u.s. senator rand paul. [applause] >> thank you. thanks for coming out. i'd like to introduce my wife, kelly. it's our 25th anniversary today. we just sent our first son off to college and like some of your parents, when you went off to college, your parents were worried about you --...
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until the success of ronald reagan became clear. obama's suffered on the civil-rights movement and of the new left. he determined to experience them vicariously. he tried drugs as he confessed and hence autobiography, "dreams from my father." rallied against south africa , political speeches, community organizers, tried to get in touch with the black experience a and in general search for meaning to use a formulation he could not to reject. he shared the 60s existentialist mood everyone must find his own meaning in life and find his own way. there is no meeting out there zero or objective source that one can point* to zero or rely on. he shared the determination to make history rather than and let it happen or to redeem in justice. roswell obama share the post modernist suspicion of the universal values are not universal and probably not true. one can see these ideas that work in "dreams from my father" the highly fictionalized memoir. politicians notoriously live. not a surprise. no future president ever boasted he was making stuff
until the success of ronald reagan became clear. obama's suffered on the civil-rights movement and of the new left. he determined to experience them vicariously. he tried drugs as he confessed and hence autobiography, "dreams from my father." rallied against south africa , political speeches, community organizers, tried to get in touch with the black experience a and in general search for meaning to use a formulation he could not to reject. he shared the 60s existentialist mood...